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•Case Study: Idealstor Beats LTO Head-To-Head At Gonzaga Law School

By Idealstor LLC

With over 600 students actively enrolled and 125 faculty and staff working in the School of Law, the Gonzaga IT Department is under constant pressure to maintain their systems and ensure that critical data gets backed up on a daily basis. John Weingarten, Computer Services Manager for the Gonzaga Law School, is responsible for overseeing their backup strategy and ensuring that this data is adequately backed up each night between the hours of 12AM-6AM. With such a small backup window, it became increasingly difficult to backup all of their critical data each night.

The problem for Gonzaga was that their current backup method was riddled with problems and needed constant work adjustments and creativity to effectively backup their data. Gonzaga Law School was using LTO and Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 to backup their critical systems.

The final decision for the backup needs of Gonzaga University's School of Law was to implement the Idealstor 2 Bay Backup Appliance. Mr. Weingarten installed the 2 Bay and implemented an offsite rotation that incorporated the use of 300GB IDE drives. The 2 Bay provided him a native capacity of 600GB, which easily allowed him to backup all of his critical data. John was able to connect the 2 Bay to his existing network via GB Ethernet without having to make any other changes. Mr. Weingarten immediately saw speed increases over his previous method of backing up using LTO tapes. "When I did a side-byside comparison of Idealstor and LTO, it was no contest. Idealstor allowed me to use my existing backup software and backup over Gigabit Ethernet with speeds averaging up to 1GB/minute. That meant that my backup window was no longer an issue and I could even start running full backups each night." Mr. Weingarten went on to say, "Idealstor also offered me the ability to remove hard drives and take them offsite so we could continue to take our critical data to an offsite location and comply with our existing offsite data retention requirements. Because of the speed increases provided by the Idealstor solution, Gonzaga University Law School now completes a full backup of all their data each night. The 2 Bay enables them to even run two simultaneous backups to each drive. This will allow them to even shorten their time to backup even as the amount of data they are backing up continues to grow.

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•Case Study: Idealstor Beats LTO Head-To-Head At Gonzaga Law School